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Date:      Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:48:07 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Blocked process
Message-ID:  <20090820114807.GQ9623@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <BEA3E817-E2BB-4D09-A97A-1556FF846599@gid.co.uk>
References:  <200908201204.24914.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <5A8B04B7-6110-4D00-8727-3311DC935019@gid.co.uk> <200908201920.06795.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200908202036.20367.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <BEA3E817-E2BB-4D09-A97A-1556FF846599@gid.co.uk>

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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:35:46PM +0100, Bob Bishop wrote:
>=20
> On 20 Aug 2009, at 12:06, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>=20
> >On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> >>On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Bob Bishop wrote:
> >>>On 20 Aug 2009, at 08:25, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> >>>>This is running in 6.2 ish using 4BSD, I was under the impression
> >>>>ULE wasn't very stable in 6.2.
> >>>>
> >>>>I could probably try it though...
> >>>
> >>>Hmm. ISTR having similar problems around the 6.1-2 era. You might
> >>>try 6.4 if that's possible for you.
> >>
> >>Someone is going to visit it, but if I can't solve it remotely I'll
> >>probably just update it to 7.2 or so.
> >
> >What sort of problems did you have BTW?
>=20
> Things like ls on the console might take several seconds to respond =20
> when the box didn't seem to be very busy (but wasn't idle, maybe =20
> serving a little NFS). It wasn't the shell getting swapped out or =20
> anything else obvious. This was on SMP, not using X. The problem went =20
> away with 6.4R (had to stay with 6.x for unrelated reasons).

6.1 was released with a bug in NFS server, causing serious slowdown
when non-MPSAFE fs was exported.

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